Word: second-best
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...dirty lie," expostulated Alvin Ruml '45, when he was accused of being the second-best pin-ball shot in College, although he admits John L. Ryan '43 and Armistead C. Leigh '46 to be pretty good...
Closing upon Casablanca and its airdromes, the U.S. forces were fighting for Vichy's second-best Atlantic naval anchorage (the best: Dakar), a sizable segment of Vichy's Navy, Vichy Africa's principal Atlantic railhead and a modern city (pop. 257,000) which was the pride of colonial France. After the capture of the three key cities-Casablanca, Oran and Algiers-the rest of French North Africa might well be the Allies' for the taking...
...Rabbits. But neither White nor Beazley could have been a hero without Enos Slaughter, mightiest of the Missouri robber barons. Though his teammates call him "Country"-because he came to the Cardinal tryout camp straight from the North Carolina backwoods-there is nothing slow about Slaughter. He is the second-best batter (.318) in the National League, is almost a Ty Cobb on the bases, has a magnetic mitt and a mighty arm (developed, he says, pegging stones at rabbits when he was a shaver...
...highest-paid musician in the U.S. is Singer Nelson Eddy. He has pocketed $7,000 for a single concert, generally gets $3,000-$3,500. His take last year: better than $200,000. So reported Variety last week. Second-best box office, said Variety, was petite, vivacious Coloratura Lily Pons, who averages $3,000 an appearance...
...destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...